Word: aptly
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...Parris. As the whirlwind of madness enters even his house on the outskirts of the village he manages to keep his back straight and nearly unwinds the whole mad spectacle until it captures and1 breaks him. Hanley’s performance takes Proctor convincingly through all these stages with apt restraint and sufficient fervor. Hanley’s Proctor stands tall among the men of the town, a clear-eyed beacon of sanity and hard-working goodness. Hanley maintains his characters’ moral fiber even as he breaks down and signs his confession...
...academically-sanctioned self-involvement is very appealing), the process of choosing a thesis topic has proven more difficult than I had anticipated. No one topic seems very appealing for more than five minutes. Dreiser, for instance, is all too easily dismissed by Dorothy Parker’s acidly apt couplet, “Theodore Dreiser/ Should ought to write nicer.” And is affection for a cleverly-named sledgehammer really sufficient basis for a months-long project? Catholic (in the sense of ‘peripatetic’) interests have proved to be a liability in my search...
...Australians come to believe that "tragedy" and "horrific" are apt ways to describe the champ's misfortune, that would be a gross over-reaction. Those who know Thorpe expect him to make a quick recovery. Given he won't be racing in a distance event, "Thorpedo" should be able to rejig his workload before August's Games to swim faster in the sprint events and relays, a leading local coach told Time...
Robb Moss, the Arnheim lecturer on filmmaking and the teacher of VES 51a, where Green spoke, says he finds this sequence’s retrieval of an iconic still image to be an apt metaphor for Green’s technique in The Weather Underground...
Don’t be discouraged—perhaps without this fabled A+, your evil TF might be more apt to give you an A. Don’t get your hopes up, though—only five students have received perfect GPAs in Harvard’s history...